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Main Authors: Li, Xiao-Hui, Lu, Yuan-Ming, Wan, Yuan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10246
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author Li, Xiao-Hui
Lu, Yuan-Ming
Wan, Yuan
author_facet Li, Xiao-Hui
Lu, Yuan-Ming
Wan, Yuan
contents We show that an electric field can induce nonreciprocal spin wave dispersion in magnetic insulators with negligible spin-orbit coupling. The electric field controls the direction and magnitude of nonreciprocity through a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect without switching the magnetic ground state. By deriving spin space group symmetry constraints, we find only a subset of noncoplanar magnets exhibits this property, and identify a few candidates. For the example of hexagonal lattice tetrahedral antiferromagnet, our effective field theory analysis and microscopic model calculation yield results that are fully consistent with the symmetry analysis.
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spellingShingle Electric-Field Induced Spin Wave Nonreciprocity in Noncoplanar Magnets
Li, Xiao-Hui
Lu, Yuan-Ming
Wan, Yuan
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We show that an electric field can induce nonreciprocal spin wave dispersion in magnetic insulators with negligible spin-orbit coupling. The electric field controls the direction and magnitude of nonreciprocity through a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect without switching the magnetic ground state. By deriving spin space group symmetry constraints, we find only a subset of noncoplanar magnets exhibits this property, and identify a few candidates. For the example of hexagonal lattice tetrahedral antiferromagnet, our effective field theory analysis and microscopic model calculation yield results that are fully consistent with the symmetry analysis.
title Electric-Field Induced Spin Wave Nonreciprocity in Noncoplanar Magnets
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10246